Nearly Half of #LG Smart #TV #Apps Are Laced with #Proxies

source: spur.us/blog/smart-tv-apps-res…

Once a TV app can act as a proxy, the risk is not limited to someone borrowing your public IP address. The app is running inside your home #network. If the #proxy provider decides to allow requests to private or local addresses, or if their filtering fails, that TV becomes a foothold for reaching things that were never meant to be exposed to the internet: router admin panels, NAS devices, printers, cameras, developer machines, and other apps listening on local ports.

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